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Photos: May Day and International Labour Day

Tourists take a "selfie" photo as demonstrators burn a trash container during a May Day rally in Barcelona, Spain on Thursday. Tens of thousands of workers marked May Day in European cities with a mix of anger and gloom over austerity measures imposed by leaders trying to contain the eurozone's intractable debt crisis.Photo: MANU FERNANDEZ/The Associated Press

A collection of images of May Day and International Labour Day from across the globe.

Opponents of the Venezuelan government shout slogans as they take part in a May Day demonstration in Caracas on Thursday. Opponents as well as supporters of the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro marched to commemorate the holiday. (GERALDO CASO/AFP/Getty Images)

A Salvadorean worker takes part in the May Day parade organized by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and various worker unions in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Thursday. (JOSE CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images)

A demonstrator hits an advertising panel with a hammer during a May Day protest in Medellin, Colombia. (RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images)

Members of unions rally Thursday on International Labor Day in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. ORLANDO BARRIA/EPA

Migrant workers from Indonesia carry placards which collectively read “End Slavery” during a Labour Day rally in Hong Kong on May 1, 2014. Over a thousand protesters gathered for the annual May Day rally in Hong Kong’s landmark Victoria Park to walk towards the government headquarters waving colourful flags and placards, while singing a Chinese version of the famous “Do you hear the people sing?” from the musical Les Miserables, calling for better working conditions and better wages. ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images

About 400 homeless and unemployed participants of the May Day rally on the streets of Katowice, Poland, 01 May 2014. Labour Day, also known as International Workers’ Day or May Day, is observed worldwide May 1. EPA/ANDRZEJ GRYGIEL

Thousands of Communists march during a May Day demonstration in downtown Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May, 1, 2014. Meanwhile about 100,000 people marched through Red Square to celebrate May Day, the first time the annual parade has been held on the vast cobblestoned square outside the Kremlin since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. AP Photo/Denis Tyrin

Protesters wearing gas masks take cover during a May Day demonstration on May 1, 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkish police fired water cannon and tear gas on Thursday in an attempt to prevent hundreds of protesters from defying a ban on May Day rallies and reaching Istanbul’s central Taksim Square, the focal point of protests last summer. Burak Kara/Getty Images

Workers protest in central Athens, Greece during May Day demonstrations marking the international labour’s day on May 1, 2014. Tens of thousands of people across the globe were hitting the streets on May 1 for mass rallies marking International Labour Day, with Turkey a potential flashpoint on the anniversary of clashes that spawned a nationwide protest movement. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images

French President Francois Hollande attends on May 1, 2014 the annual Labour Day ceremony during which he receives bouquets of Lily of the Valley flowers at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. CHRISTOPHE ENA/AFP/Getty Images

Members of workers’ unions attend a May Day protest in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Various labour groups staged a protest in Belgrade in order to voice their concern over the expected austerity measures announced by Serbia’s new government. AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic

A migrant worker wears a mask resembling a likeness of former Indonesian maid Erwiana Sulistyaningsih during a Labour Day rally in Hong Kong on May 1, 2014. ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images

Communist party supporters hold placards reading ‘Yatsenyuk and Turchynov, you must to leave your illegal occupied positions!’ and ‘Turchynov, you are killer!’ during their rally to mark International Labour Day in front of the Vladimir Lenin monument, in Slovyansk, Ukraine on May 1 2014. EPA/ROMAN PILIPEY

LGBT activists march and shout slogans during the May Day demonstration in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 1 2014. EPA/ANATOLY MALTSEV

Riot police clash with demonstrators during a march in Turin, northern Italy, to mark International Labour Day on May 1, 2014. EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MARCO

Jean-Marie Le Pen (2-L, front row), former President of the Front National (FN), and her daughter and actual President of the party Marine Le Pen (R) take part in the party’s traditional May Day rally in Paris, France. EPA/YOAN VALAT

A man holds a placard reading “No to the markets dictatorship” as he demonstrates during a May Day rally on May 1, 2014 in Marseille, southern France. BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images